Unicorn status for Synthesia start up

Prof. Dr. Matthias Niessner
Prof. Dr. Matthias Niessner© Astrid Eckert, Muenchen

Company of FAU alumnus Prof. Dr. Matthias Nießner valued at one billion US dollars

Face capture and facial reenactment are some of his specialist fields and he has been working on them for several years: Prof. Dr. Matthias Niessner, now Head of the Visual Computing Lab at TU München, is originally from FAU, where he not only completed his degree, but also gained his doctoral degree at the Chair of Computer Science 9 (Visual Computing) in 2013. Read more …